LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

up the subject. It is a non-political subject. It is outside the conflict. It
has to do with the possible future. It does not set out any advantages of
Basic English to those who choose to go on from the start Ogden made.
But Ogden is too lazy to think of any developments, on his first outline.
He hadn’t even got the— —or to the introductory notes on the
[Fenollosa?] essay notes on the written character.
I offer this as a challenge. If the Brain Trust is just one more part of the
present system, as Chesterton has defined it, an instrument to blot out the
public memory, an instrument for destroying the public memory, said
G.K.C. when he wrote——December, 1939, in his weekly. Blotting out
the past so that people shall not learn from it, distracting them from
present realities with a mirage of an impossible future. Well, the break
from Italian to English is very short if you follow Morelli, or from
English to Italian. That makes the universal language for Europe, a
double language, not only of commerce but of culture. The fear of the
ideogram is due largely to ignorance. I have followed Fenollosa and the
tract is most thorny. He needs more printed manuals such as I have
begun to print here, in my edition of The Great Learning, the Testament
of Confucius.
And anyhow, when you people talk of a one language system, you mean
mostly one language for Europe and America. Very few of you think of
the rest at all.
#101 (June 22, 1943) U.S.(C64)
STALIN
“The first contradiction is the antagonism between labor and capital,”
wrote Stalin 21 years ago. “Imperialism is the export of capital to the
sources of raw materials,” wrote Mr. Stalin, 21 years ago, in his highly
vivacious little brochure, “The Foundations of Leninism.”